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- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
optimal government debt maturity in a model where investors derive monetary services from holding riskless short-term securities. In a simple setting where the government is the only issuer of such riskless paper, it trades off the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
product line within Xerox. He had the support of Xerox's chief executive officer, David Kearns, for establishing the new internal structure. This structure would work much like an internal venture capital...
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by Henry Chesbrough
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This paper helps balance the literature via comparative analysis of the potential contributions of two voluntary sustainability certification programs for artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM): Fairtrade View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
understanding how corporations manage the symbolic use of information and how corporate behavior is influenced by civil society scrutiny embedded in institutional processes. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1836472 Colonial Institutions, View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Nov 2012
- News
The Beauty of the Network
connection, when Pao was helping a young woman find a consulting internship. She checked with Matthew Krentz (MBA 1987), a senior partner in BCG’s Chicago office. “My email was 75 percent about the intern position, 20 percent about...
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- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
unavoidably exert influence over politics through power that is generated by both structure and process. While both political economy and management scholars address international firms, neither field has an adequate understanding of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Archival Collections - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
letters requesting trade literature and information from companies, as well as letters from students conducting research for Doriot's Manufacturing course. The collection also includes miscellaneous aeronautics brochures and timetables....
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- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
was nothing if not a closer. His company had to break into international software markets because the local one was virtually nonexistent. To succeed, Infosys needed to build a track record, which meant closing deals quickly. One...
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by Walter Kuemmerle
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
multilateral trade mechanisms in the aftermath of the Second World War, is changing rapidly and creating waves of uncertainty. This is especially true in higher education, a field increasingly built on View Details
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
built international political and military coalitions, and negotiated a U.N. Security Council Resolution authorizing "all necessary means" to eject Iraq from Kuwait. Only after these steps were taken did the Bush administration...
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by James K. Sebenius
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
opened for business, thus changing the face of both world trade and military power and playing a pivotal role in the rise of the United States on the world stage. Today we view the creation of the Panama Canal as a story of U.S....
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
(from the case); analyzing preliminary estimated costs per building trade (from the discussion questions); playing the multiparty real time competitive bid simulation to receive and process market costs; and debriefing on which bids...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
Government, and the International Economy Unit—often works with HBS’s 15 global research centers and offices to ensure that different countries and sectors of the industry are well represented. Alvarez’s research has frequently taken him...
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- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
international competition. That was a sign that the US was not doing well in businesses that have to compete internationally. The data also showed what many had known—that wages started stagnating well over a decade ago. The participation...
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Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
also became the first district to use a mechanism based on Top Trading Cycles (TTC) in a real-life allocation problem. Since TTC was originally devised for settings in which agents have endowments, there is no formal rationale for TTC in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
for auto parts online. Finally, the company is moving its internal processes, such as billing and inventory, online. GM estimates that each of these four undertakings will save an extraordinary amount of money and enable the company to...
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- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
existence of free trade in labor and capital as well as goods and services between the two countries. Thus, Canada had no financial crisis in 2007-08. Capitalism is a system of governance because it embodies human purposes, which differ...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog
Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Meg Rithmire Managing International Trade and Investment Business, Government & the International Economy Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Mark Roberge Entrepreneurial...
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- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
algorithm. The nowcasting results are more accurate for denser, wealthier, and more educated ZIP codes. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53271 International Business and Emerging Markets: A Long-Run...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
of internal and external factors have an impact on their pay, and that, in fact, today's CEO compensation packages are tied very closely to company performance.Lorsch began his study by looking at the proxy statements of 72 companies...
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Judith A. Ross